New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-25
- r1yrsH MoRyIyGsIDE PARK.
rrn AND vAUx WILL PLAN THE WORK

i oosep RAILROAD THROUGH THE PAkk-oP-
POSITION or THE COMMISSIONERS.
| po,k Commissioners terminated the long dis
Lev ocer Mo.niagside Park yesterday by referring
| syas,,ns TOR completing it to Messrs. Omsted and
l sp A special meeting had been called to take
4 90 on tho modification OF the plans as MADE by
l sesr.t.ndent Parsons and Engineer Kellogg.
sr number OF property-owncrs representing ue
,;apside Property 0wners Association. were pres
:, Among these were ex-senator r. M. DlADF'
ni,ht H. 0lms.ead, frank Tiltord, Joseph W. lee,s'
I core w. Clark, A. 2. Ketchnn and W. D. Mofrte
rixbv cave TO the board a petition from the as
ia,ion asking that the plans nov before tue Doata
- ,aepted at once and that steps be taken 10 begn
~ thls fall The petition also urged that the work
s,uld be prosecuted under the orcctloh Oh Messrs
| nmsted and Vaux. Before any ocnon had oeen
tep President Borden announced that Commissioners
deer. had resolution which might cover the same
| round moro ehectualiy. 1t was read as follows;
ra the president of this board be and hereby Hnthorzed
oensage Mess Oiasled snG aux 70 anu ST 20
sohngsde Park and submitted TO the board on March u
roH rt,er ' s8,orled 10 fix the Compensation
President Boraen-Does ths resolution meet the approval
o the gentlemen representing Mcrnngsioe PARK properly
Senator Bxby-Yos in the What 1--WE want espec-
y to set the work pesn on me park we Glte
iss work begun that is a we want
vii sos MyeGss rco",o% II he foset plans are ap
proved need OF referring TO the Messr
sS@e Changes which viii iter delay the ueglnning OF Tie
Mr BxbyI DO not what changes they would wish to
Mr. Borden 1t not improbable that they will desire
Mr Crimmins-The Morningsde Property owners Asso.
tson conferred with Mr. oimstedt think as 70 tne
toe that would DO required TO make any changes III ~
PM Bixby-I believe he said woad not take moro
than three weeks at the most
DWIGHT H. Olmstesd, Mr.. Ketchum and other mem
hera Of the association said that they were satisfied
with Commissioner Myers's resolution aud Mr. blHOy
decided to withdraw tue petition The resolution was
then sdOpted unanimously. As soon as the plans
have been prepared by Mossrs. Olmsted and Naux
they will he presented TO the Controller ana money
xill be obtained IL begin the work.
Commissioner Myers called attention to a map that
had been Gcd in The Registers Office by TIE New
York. Connecticut and asteIn RAILROAD COMPANY.
The company proposes TO build railroad partly
eleyatcd an partly undcrgl oCnd. from Fhty-nnth-
at through the northern part vi the cty and W est
ebsster County as part OF fast line TO Boston IL
r,onoSes ia have It's NcG-YOlk terminus at Fifty
rnih.st and Central Park, and running along the
boulevard and Ninth-ave.. to cross MornussiHe
psrt M Ope-huudred-au1 --iXtecn th-st., up and
tbronqh portions OF High Bridge PARK and over the
Harlem River by a bridge q great de-. OF apprehen-
sion has been eAclted III. Myers s"lf' "Mo.s
VropertyOwuers along this proposed route as TO It's
Eject on their property, and the iuHenca was already
enpqrcnt He thought the Park Board should at ONE
announce its opposition to tae invasion Of the parks
Of the city, and he presented the following resolution
which was unanimously adopted:
Eesolrsi That is Bolrl ioraay expresses its un2,ie;-
be opposition 20 tie Use o! any poi toh o l- P"S uN
lis contlO save tie PURPOSE tor which they we're de-
signed 10 pleas grOUn o. tic people 1Ad declares
1 15it or any other cscTSacha,enis thereon
Mr. Bixby and other prOperty-o@ners Of Morning
side who were still present denounced this proposed
road which, they said as backed by Boston capital
,sts snd would ruin the Yves side and al Per portion
Of the island Tor Dwelling Ii it "ere built;
think. however" Mr BiXby tddcc. That the
prompt action OF the Park Department WI knock TIE
scheme in the head. The company cannot odlld the
rcad II the park authorities will not permit TIE use of
lis rarkwsys, anu tie map tiled IN the Register s.
Office viii then stand a libel against property
owners and the company VIII nave 10 remove IL OF
he liable 10 action They would destroy MorGingsde
Park. which we are now about 10 have finished not
70 nention the presence OF the railroad station at the
Eighlh-sve entrance to Central fa'k. Tie "'h"-c 20
Hon Brldra Park and the new parks through which
tne road would pass beyond the Harlem River
AT the Office OF the road, No. l46 Broadway. Z vas
denied that the road was 'acked by Boston capital
isis.